The Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP), yesterday said the G-5 Governors in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), also known as the Integrity Group, were not demanding too much by calling for the resignation of the party’s National Chairman, Senator Iyorchia Ayu, as allegedly agreed in the event of a northerner emerged as the party’s presidential candidate for the 2023 elections.
CUPP, in an issued statement by its spokesman, Ikenga Ugochinyere, accused Ayu of escalating the crisis rocking the opposition party, lamenting that his continued stay in office was creating more disunity, and that if care is not taken, it might sink the party.
Ugochinyere noted the speculations that members of the G-5 governors might agree to work for the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, and that of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, saying that this can be put to an end if Ayu resigns.
He, therefore, advised the party’s National Chairman to endeavour to tender his resignation on or before January 5, 2023.
The opposition parties also urged the PDP presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, to prevail on Ayu to resign as earlier agreed, in order to bring an end to the PDP crisis.
